Background on C. H. Wheeler
A resident of Haydenville, Mass., during the 1930s, C. H. Wheeler was evidently captivated with the profound political changes sweeping the nation during the years of the Great Depression.
Scope of collection
Containing hundreds of political cartoons clipped from local newspapers and national media, this scrapbook documents media reactions to the Great Depression and New Deal, the presidential election of 1936, Alf Landon and Franklin D. Roosevelt, Republican efforts to undermine relief legislation, and national and international political currents. The compiler pasted in a small number of news articles, magazine covers, and the series of famously errant straw polls run by the Literary Digest that predicted a Landon landslide over Roosevelt in 1936.
Although the compiler's identity is uncertain, two magazine covers tipped into the scrapbook bear an address label for C. H. Wheeler of Haydenville, Mass. The scrapbook pages are highly acidic, brittle, and should be handled with care.
Administrative information
Access
The collection is open for research.
Provenance
Gift of Forbes Library, March 2009.
Processing Information
Processed by Dex Haven, March 2009.
Language:
EnglishCopyright and Use (More information )
Cite as: C. H. Wheeler Scrapbook (MS 598 bd). Special Collections and University Archives, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Search terms
Subjects
- Depressions--1929.
- Landon, Alfred M. (Alfred Mossman), 1887-1987.
- Massachusetts--Politics and government--1933-1945.
- New Deal, 1933-1939.
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945.
- United States--Politics and government--1933-1945.
Contributors
- Wheeler, C. H. [main entry]
- Wheeler, C. H.
Genres and formats
- Political cartoons.
- Scrapbooks.
